Orkinman

Wow!!! That worked. I wish I could high five you right now. Thanks for your help Alloverx.

I intend to try a JPEG recovery program when I get them all recoverd and I survey the damage. My issue is the Access Denied to be able to recover them in the first place. I tried Handy Recovery but it can't see the same files. Any other suggestions for recovery programs?

I'm using Recuva to try to get back data that was lost via a reinstallation of windows. The user didn't know what she was doing. Somehow the file is there, but I can't recover it. The file's name is blank and it's listed path is "E:\?\" It has no overwritten clusters detected and has state of Excellent. When I attempt to recover it gives me this Operation Complete Recovered 0 files in 0.34 sec. The following files were not recovered (1 total): Filename | Size | Reason 2,441 KB Access is Denied Now I took the entire drive and set the owner to local administrator of the system I'm using to recover the data with; And I set file access permissions for all files to everyone / full control. However I still get this error. Here's the kicker, these files are her images, and I can see the full resolution image in the preview pane of Recuva, but can't recover the file. It's infuriating!